By Mark | September 13, 2020
It’s great that Joe Biden — who, despite what you might have heard from Donald Trump, is not hiding in his basement — appears to be pulling ahead in the polls as we’re entering the last 50 days of the race. We cannot afford, however, to take anything for granted. It’s difficult to believe, given […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, Agriculture, border wall, call to action, China, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Freeland, get out the vote, health insurance, Joe Biden, national debt, Obamacare, Ohio, pandemic, public health, tariff, trade war, volunteering |
I thought I could wait a little longer before getting out my credit card, and going into debt for a 2020 presidential candidate, but I’ve been reading stories about how Elizabeth Warren is lagging behind her fellow candidates on the fundraising front, and felt compelled to put a few dollars into her account. I don’t […]
I don’t donate a lot of money to political candidates. While I put in quite a few hours working for the Kerry and Obama campaigns, I didn’t give either of them very much in the way of cash. The only people that I can think of that I gave more than ten or twenty dollars […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Mark's Life, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2012 federal budget, Bernie Sanders, budget cuts, budget deficit, class warfare, debt ceiling, federal budget, Medicaid, Medicare, military spending, Obama, poverty, rich get richer, shared sacrifice, socialist, the growing gap between rich and poor, threats to the middle class, unemployment, Wall Street |
By Mark | December 19, 2010
Prevailing wisdom seems to be that Obama doesn’t need to garner the favor of his progressive base. Those of us on the left, it’s thought, will vote for the President regardless, as we know there aren’t viable alternatives that are any better. All he needs to worry about, according to those who study such things, […]
Posted in Economics, Observations, Politics, Predictions | Also tagged Bill Bradley, broken campaign promises, Bush tax cuts, campaign funding, Carl Levin, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Glen S, Guantánamo, Howard Dean, Jesse Jackson, John Kerry, Michael Dukakis, middle class, Obama, OFA, Organizing for America, pissing off the base, public option, Sam Graham-Felsen, social security, the growing gap between rich and poor, triangulation |
